The problem is that '^' is defined in a pattern match to match the
beginning of a string. so you need ot escape it.
@array = split / \^ /, $record;
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote:
> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:19:02 -0800
> From: Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Madhavprasad Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Problem in pattern matching of perl.
>
> rajesh,
>
> i belive the problem you are seeing is related to the fact that
> the "^" character is the "exclusive or" operator in perl, returning
> its operators xored together bit by bit, as defined in the perlop
> man page. hope this helps.
>
> //daryl
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > we are doing timesheet project for our company
> > which uses perl extensively and scripts are running on linux ,
> > perl version is 5.00552 , and Database is MSSQL6.5 on NT.
> >
> > The problem is coming in matching the pattern as once we fetch
> > a column from database ( which contains some data separeted by
> > delimiter).
> >
> > for eg.
> >
> > data fetched from one column is 110 ^ 220 ^ 230 ^ 240 ^ 250 ^
> > now we are splitting it on basis of delimiter (^) through following
> > code.
> >
> > $task = 110 ^ 220 ^ 230 ^ 240 ^ 250
> > @abc = split(/ ^ / , $task)
> >
> > if we print the values of @abc ,
> > IT doesn't print anything.
> >
> > One more thing , The data fetched from a column is always stored in
> > a scalar variable.
> >
> > Does anybody having an idea how this problem could be solved.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Bye
> > Rajesh Mittal
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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